Ben Franklin Statesman Quotes

#1. I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

Martha Stewart

#2. Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.

Gilbert Seldes

#3. I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#5. And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread is not always about what the patent is like or what the factory is like, it's about can you get your idea to spread or not?

Seth Godin

#6. Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.

Robert Jenson

#7. Where you have been doesn't define who you are, Zeb. I told you that when we first met that I understand that people make mistakes.

Jay Crownover

#8. I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform a great task, He will, from the boundless stores of His providence, supply the inadequacy of the means to the end.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

Zach Braff

#10. Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ... can be called "public" or "popular" opinion.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#11. The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

Terence McKenna